SHMULEY BOTEACH
I saw a nasty thing walking with my children in New York City on the
Sabbath. On Madison Ave in the mid-sixties, we saw a group of people,
chanting, singing.
Was it Christmas carolers? As we got closer we saw it was a protest. An anti-Israel protest.
But this one was not outside an Israeli Consulate or Embassy. It was
outside a commercial, retail store. A diamond store. Owned by Lev
Leviev, the Israeli billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
“Glitz and glam. He steals Palestinian land.”
I was appalled. I got closer. The protesters were accusing Leviev, a
private Jewish citizens, of stealing Palestinian land, persecuting
Palestinians, and supporting an imperial Israel.
I asked the protesters who Leviev was and why they were protesting him.
Was he Israel’s Prime Minister or Foreign Minister? At least the
Ambassador. How else to explain why they would be protesting outside a
business simply owned by a Jew.
They told me he was an Israeli who supported Israel’s persecution of the
Palestinians. He was a known, high-profile Jewish businessman. They
were there to make sure no one bought his products.
I had had enough. I raised my hands into the air, in the mist of the
protest, and said loudly, “Long Live Israel, the only democracy in the
Middle East. The only country in that dark region that is a bastion of
liberty and human rights. A place where Palestinian women need never
fear honor killings. A place where Israeli Arabs have more guaranteed
rights than any Arab nation. A place where gay Palestinians need not
fear being shot in the head on false charges of collaboration. A place
where Arabs can protest publicly, just like all of you, and not be shot.
Long live righteous and majestic Israel.”
Instantly, all the protestors forgot about Leviev and turned their ire
toward me. I was now the devil. They were shouting at me, abusing me.
“F—ck off. Go F—ck yourself.”
I got louder.
“How revolting of all of you to protest a business because it’s owned by
a Jew.” What is this? Nuremberg 1934? Absolutely reprehensible.
My kids were now engaged in the fight, singing “Am Yisrael Chai. The
Jewish people are alive and well.” We were louder than the protestors.
I started saying “Down with Hamas which allows honor killings of
innocent Palestinian women. Down with Hamas that slaughters innocent
Palestinian gay men. Down with the Palestinian…. ” and I was about to
say “… Authority for refusing to go to elections in 10 years and
creating a dictatorship, robbing the Palestinian people of their
freedom” when I saw that someone was filming me on the Sabbath.
The police came over, trying to quell the confrontation. They have a permit, he said. They have the right to protest.
God bless America. I respect their right for public demonstration. But I also respect my right to write this in a column.
Jews of the world. Wake up. There has never been an assault on us like
this in our lifetimes. And we are allowing it. Through our timidity and
through closing our eyes and pretending not to see, it’s growing. Our
enemies are arraying against us. They have substituted anti-Semitism for
Anti-Israelism. But it’s the same sentiment.
Jew-hatred, pure and simple.
This holiday season the world’s anti-Semites are giving thanks for the
existence of the State of Israel. If not for Israel they would not have
camouflage for their Jew-hatred. Israel has given them cover. It’s not
the Jews we hate, but just the Jewish state. It’s not because we have an
inherent dislike of Jews. We just hate occupation.
But then they call each other on their IPhones, even though they’re made in China which has been occupying Tibet since 1950.
But only a weak community would give these haters a fig leaf to cover over their clear bigotry, prejudice, and hatred.
My kids were flabbergasted that a private Jewish business could draw
major accusations of Palestinian persecution. It suited the protesters
well that it was a diamond dealer. Perfect stereotype.
But who would be next? Which Jewish business would they target next?
A few hours later we went to the Chabad public Menorah lighting outside
the Plaza hotel on 5th Ave. There was a small protest against Israel
there was well. Joining the protest was a 20-something man who told us
all that the Jews owned all of 5th Avenue. He pointed across the street
at the famous Apple 5th Avenue store. “Apple is owned by Jews.”
I looked at him.
“Um, erg, hmmm. Did you know that Steve Jobs was the son of an
Arab-American? So how does that square with the Jews owning Apple?”
“Well the Jews bought it from Jobs with the endless money they have.”
Aha.
I thought to myself, Is there no respite from all this Jew-hatred? Can we not get away from them even at a Menorah lighting?
The other day Harvard University kicked out SodaStream from their
cafeteria for the terrible sin of employing hundreds of Palestinians at a
plant in Maale Adumim that treats Arabs as the absolute equals of their
Israeli counterparts. Without SodaStream these Palestinian families
would be destitute. But Palestinian activists at Harvard, animated by
hatred of Israel over love for Palestinian lives, demanded a boycott and
the caterer capitulated.
And so it goes. Jewish timidity in the United States is allowing more and more of these outrages to take place.
I wonder if we recognize the seriousness of what’s happening or will it engulf us before we take decisive action?
What is needed is an immediate move to organize Jewish students on
campus to respond publicly to the anti-Israel onslaught at Universities.
We need public demonstrations against Israel-hatred, anti-Semitism, and
in favor of freedom and democracy in the Middle East. Jewish students
should not just be fighting BDS but should be going on offense to push
through resolutions in the City Councils sanctioning Hamas and the
Palestinian Authority for not holding elections in a decade and
transforming Palestinian society into dictatorships.
Organizations who dare hold ordinary Jews responsible for actions in the
Middle East – which would be the equivalent of protesting an Arab-owned
department store in Detroit for the butchery of Bashar Assad in Syria –
should themselves be targeted for public demonstrations, calling them
what they are: anti-Semites.
And let’s honor those brave individuals who have stood up to BDS.
Every June our organization hosts the International Champions of Jewish
Values Gala Awards Dinner in New York. Last year the Hollywood celebrity
we honored was Sean Penn for his unrivaled bravery in going to Bolivia
and rescuing the life of a Jewish businessman who had been wrongly
incarcerated.
The year before we honored my dear friend Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Muslim, for
his tireless efforts to promote the value of human life by getting us
all to live more healthy lives and for his continued friendship with the
Jewish people. A few months after the award we hosted Mehmet and his
family in Israel.
This year we intend to honor Scarlett Johannson for standing up to the
pressure to abandon SodaStream, a company that is a model of
Arab-Israeli brotherhood and fraternity.
Scarlett, if you’re out there, please come to New York and accept. The dinner is on 3 June, 2015.
mething great!"

NEW YORK, December 23, 2014 --- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)reiterates its call of last week for President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard, after President Obama freed three convicted spies who spied for an enemy regime, Cuba, and now that he has also freed ten terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo.

The first of six, freed the previous week -- a Tunisian, a Palestinian and four Syrians -- captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan 12 years ago, were released to Uruguay, which in turn immediately released the men. President Obama has now also released four Afghans captured over a decade ago. There is no U.S. requirement that the government of Afghanistan continue to detain the men, meaning all ten are free (Allen McDuffee, 'U.S. Releases Four Afghan Detainees From Guantanamo,' The Atlantic, December 20, 2014).

As with the three Cubans freed last week, these men worked for America's enemies and were imprisoned for a similar period (12 years for the first six Guantanamo men, over a decade for the latest four, 13 years for the Cuban spies) -- whereas Jonathan Pollard, spying for an American ally, Israel, and whose activities cost no American lives, has sat in jail for 29 years.

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "As we noted last week, it is deeply disturbing that President Obama, who has been repeatedly urged by U.S. officials who held responsibility at the time for national security and intelligence matters to free Jonathan Pollard, has refused to do so.

"In contrast, President Obama repeatedly frees spies and terrorists who fought for America's enemies and whose activities claimed American lives.

"Jonathan Pollard passed on classified information to Israel, a U.S. ally, not a U.S. enemy. There was, thus, no treason involved. Pollard pled guilty to the charges and apologized for his crimes.

"Despite, having pled guilty as part of a plea bargain, Pollard was shown no leniency and was given the maximum sentence, comparable to that of Aldrich Ames, the chief of CIA counterintelligence in Eastern Europe, who passed critical defense secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and was found responsible for the deaths of at least 11 U.S. agents!

"A host of senior past high U.S. government officials with responsibility for relevant national security, international and legal affairs, such as former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George P. Schultz, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, former National Security Advisor Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary for Defense Lawrence J. Korb, former Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, former Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman David Durenberger, former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann; former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, former Senate Judiciary Committee Member, Dennis DeConcini, and former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel Samuel Lewis and Thomas Pickering, have all publicly and in writing stated that Jonathan Pollard's sentence has been disproportionate and urged President Obama to pardon him.

"Jonathan Pollard has already served nearly three decades behind bars, which is by far the harshest sentence ever meted out for the offense he committed -- the average term for which is a fine, or two to four years' imprisonment.

"If President Obama can free 10 Guantanamo terrorists who took up arms against America, he can certainly pardon Jonathan Pollard. He should do so without further delay."

For
several decades, the question about Jewish identity - “who is a Jew” - has been
buried and conveniently forgotten - due to fake political correctness, in fear
of being called “racist”, and to appease some prominent members of the
community - by Jewish leadership and Jewish communities.

Recently
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman expressed strong opinions, as it should be
when someone has an opinion, on the role of religion in the State of Israel (and
Jewish identity). "When talking about the Jewish state, is important to
emphasize that in the national sense and not in the religious sense,"
Liberman said. He added that Yisrael Beytenu is very much for Jewish tradition
in Israel.

"We
respect the religion and Judaism," he said. "Without Judaism and
tradition, we would not be standing on this podium. Without Judaism we would
not be here and have not established the State of Israel and therefore we can
do no harm to Jewish tradition in Israel."

"In
the state of Israel you cannot separate religion and state," he said.
"As Jews, we do not distinguish between religion and nationality."
This principle is applicable to all Jews, regardless of their current
residence!

The
story of the Four Sons is read at the Passover Seder
table. Each of the Four Sons symbolizes a different kind of Jewish
person, from the "Wise" one to "the Son who doesn't Know Enough
to Ask". The story of the Four Sons reflects that no matter what religious
or political views a Jew has all of us are important and intricate parts of the
Jewish nation!

Diversity of
the Jewish people with emphasis on national unity
is addressed again during the celebration of Sukkot when four fruits and plants
must be united in order for Jews to make a prayer for
peace and prosperity for all people, not just Jews!

Enemies
of the Jewish people have given us many derogatory and demonizing names in
order to rob us of our true spiritual names: “Israel” - "Triumphant with God", and “Evrim” - “one who havecrossed over”.

Jewish
spiritual and national unity was shaken after Napoleonic times. When loyalty of
French Jews was questioned, rabbis gave an ambiguous answer to prove Jewish
loyalty to France, which implied separation of religion and nationality. After
that Napoleon had granted Jews some degree of equality in the French Empire, although,
this ‘equality’ experiment did not last long in anti-Semitic Europe!

Not long ago, being a Jew meant both: religion
and an ethnicity - that is, how all our anti-Semitic ‘friends’ have always
treated Jews. Most of them are still thinking and behaving this way! Being
Jewish is not just praying to one G-d, or having Jewish parents. It is
belonging to a rich spiritual, cultural and national tradition. It is being a
member of the nation which in spite of all odds, persecution and relatively
small population, survived for several thousand years and made immense
contribution to spiritual, intellectual and scientific development ofHumanity.

Jewish ethnicity, due to the lack of
traditional spiritual education, had secured the continuity of family
traditions and national belonging even in secular countries like the Soviet Union.

There are less than 14 million Jews in the
world now, almost the same number as 60 years ago after WWII. During this time
most nations have tripled or quadrupled their population! This is an
unfortunate result of the assimilation process Jews have been suffering due to
the national identity crisis, anti-Semitic persecution and lack of
self-respect.

Jews population during the Roman Empire was around
9 million, similar to the ethnic Han population of China at the time, several
hundred million now. Two thousand years later Jewish population is merely 14 million.

Assimilation is the biggest threat to the
existence of the Jewish people! Breaking the duality of Jewish identity is encouraged by Jew-haters and
self-hating Jews as the way to facilitate assimilation and elimination of
Jewish identity.

There are some Judo-Christians groups that
celebrate Charismas and Hanukah. Usually Jews who turned their back on their
heritage disappear in one or two generations.

The ‘Integration’ of Jews is still a hidden agenda
of our enemies - extermination of the Jews by any way possible! By facilitating
disappearance of Jews they - in their schizoid and delusional belief - feel
that they prove that their religion, whether Islam and Christianity, is the
true Abrahamic one!

PS: Tinok
Shenishba ("captured infant") - is a Talmudic term that
refers to a Jewish individual who sins inadvertently as a result of having been
raised without an appreciation for the thought and practices of Judaism.
"Tinok" principle used to be an important part of Jewish life, even
in my family - 3 generations of non-religious Jews!

There are many crimes committed by Muslim countries,
Islamic organizations and ordinary Muslims around the world. Many of them are
ignored in of offending the Muslim population, which is quite skillful in manipulating
public opinion, using fake Western political correctness.

Any action or even protest against Islamic barbarism
is impaired by one ‘major’ goal - assisting Arabs in destruction of the Jewish
state, Israel and it has nothing to do with the Western dependency
on Arab oil. Unfortunately, this is the main preoccupation of the most
anti-Semitic governments since the end of the World War II.

Most Western countries pretend that they are serious
about one Islamic crime only - the ‘War on Terror’, ignoring the multitude of
barbaric and inhuman crimes! This is incomplete list of crimes that have being
perpetrated in the name of Islam:

1.Hate
and hostility toward all infidels without discrimination.

2.Systematic
discrimination, ethnic cleansing and even genocides committed against
non-Muslims.

3.Destruction
of the archeological and historical heritage of non-Muslim cultures.

4.Perpetual
hate and fighting between the major Islamic sects, Shi’ites
and Sunnis.

5.Discrimination
and persecution of minor Muslim sects, like Sufis and others.

6.Destruction
of Islamic archeological and cultural heritage if it is non-compliant with the
strict interpretation of Koran by modern Islamist groups.

7.Production
and world-wide distribution of heroin and other illicit drugs.

8.Unfair
treatment and abuse of foreign workers in Arab countries.

9.Inhumane
treatment of women.

a.Forced
marriage and sellingof young girls into marriage

b.Performing
FGM - Female Genital Mutilation

c.“Honor
killings” and gang rapes

d.Denying
education for girls

10.Widespread
abuse and rape of children.

11.Slavery
- abduction and/or buying people.

12.Killing
those who try to leave Islam or converted to Christianity

13.Last,
but not least - financing, propagating, harboring global Islamic terrorism
which is based on ideology of Wahabism, world
domination of Islam!

There are other issues like: poverty, corruption,
lack of general education, poor health care, and unsafe working environment,
which are just additional problems that are not addressed and resolved by
governments of Muslim countries due to the ingrained Islamic culture of
corruption and disrespect.

Arab Palestinian nationality (which was officially forged in 1964) is an entity defined by its opposition to Zionism (the Jewish national liberation movement) and not by its national aspirations.

Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people of Israel
. The concept of a 'Stateless Palestinian people' is not based on fact.
It is a fabrication! The following is a chronology of an ethnic make up
of so-called Palestinians and their origin.

During Ottoman Empire.

Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel
in increasing numbers from the late 19th century, the area called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that was controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

1880-84
Turkish government settles Muslim Circassian refugees in the Golan to
ward off Bedouin robbers. Other settlers in the area include Sudanese,
Algerians, Kurds...

In 1878, an Ottoman law granted lands in Palestine to the Moslem refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovinain the Carmel region, in the Galilee and in the Plain of Sharonand in Caesarea. The refugees were further attracted by l2-year tax exemptions and exemption from military service.

The same colonization policy was also directed toward Moslem refugees from Russia - particularly from the Crimeaand the Caucasus. They were Cherkesians and Turkmenians - leading to their settling in Abu Gosh, near Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. Refugees from Algeria and Egyptwere also settled in Jaffa, Gaza, Jerichoand the Golan.

British Mandate: 1917-1947.

1923 Having discovered the Golan lacks oil but that the Mosul area in northern Syriais rich in oil, the British cede the Golan to France in exchange for Mosul
. At the same time the Trans-Jordan was ceded from Palestinian mandate as well and Egypt was given control of Sinai, British and France
gain control of Suetz canal. (82% of Jewish land was sacrificed in the process!)

In
1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the
northern frontier into Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and
around the newly built British port and the construction of other
infrastructure projects. They even dubbed HaifaUm el-Amal ("the city of work").

The
Ottoman Turks' census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the
Palestinian. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims.

The Palestine Mandate.In July 1922, the League of Nations entrusted the Great Britain with The Palestine Mandate, recognizing
"the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine," Great Britain was called upon to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine - Eretz Israel
(Land of Israel). Three months later, in order to obtain full control over Suezcanal, the Great Britain and France made a deal with Egypt and HashemiteKingdom.
The king's brother was invited to become the governor of Trans-Jordanian province (77% of the Mandate) and to become king of Jordan
later; the Sinai Peninsula was given to Egypt; Golan Heights(5% of the Palestinian Mandate) was ceded to the French controlled Syrian Mandate.
This robbery of the Jewish was legalized immediately by, the puppet of the Great Britain and France - the League of Nations!

General Assembly resolution 181, on Nov. 29, 1947: It calls for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalemto be controlled by a "special international regime" to protect its holy places. The Zionist movement seeking to establish a Jewish state accepted the partition, the Arabs rejected it.The resolution was not carried out: After Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, war broke out pitting the embryonic state against surrounding 7 Arab states. Israel gained more land than it would have had under the partition resolution. Neither Israel nor Jordan
, which controlled the divided parts of Jerusalem after the war, accepted control of the holy city by an international body.

Security Council resolution 242
, Nov. 22, 1967: It calls for "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from
territories occupied" in the 1967 Six Day War and for "respect for and
acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political
independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace
within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of
force."
The resolution was not carried out because the Arab side did not recognize Israel, and Israelrefused to withdraw.

Why Left or Right?

by Steven Shamrak

One
of the major distinctions between humans and animals is that we have
analytical intellect. At the same time, we base most of our ideas and
form opinions on our emotions, beliefs and assumptions, not on facts.
Blinded by personal psycho-emotional history, people dismiss logic of
the facts and create assumption to fit and support their own belief
structure. Completely
opposite ideologies: Lefties, Fascists and Islamic
expansionists/terrorists found themselves united on one issue only -
Hate toward Jews.
Quite often, I receive mail from them. Those messages are mainly just
rhetoric based on preconceived ideas and psycho-emotional cocktail.

I have never received letters that would contradict the historical facts about: Right of Jewish people to their homeland - "Palestine
"; The history of aggression and terror created by Arabs; The U.N. bias against Israel.

But, I am often accused of being:

Anti-Arab or Muslim. -As a member of
the Jewish tribe, with thousands of years being the victims inhistory of persecution and discrimination, I can assure you that my view are not Anti-something. I just express a pro-Jewish point of view based on facts not legends.
At the same time, I do respect the freedom and rights of any religion
and political point of view, even the fascist one, as long as they do
not infringe on the rights of others.

Too emotional. -Arab leaders and clerics, often seen on TV, fumigating when they talk about
Israel. Communists and Fascists are so passionate when they scream anti-Israel/anti-Semitic slogans. This is apparentlyacceptable. However,w
hen a Jew logically presents facts in support of the Jewish state, suddenly, it is wrong to be emotional.

Too Right wing.-
I do not consider myself Right or Left wing. I base my ideas and views
on facts not emotions. There are too many people (including many Jews)
who are very eager to promote, self-destructive, Left wing views.
Actually, I can't understand why, in relation to Israel
's right to exist there are Right or Left wind political points of view.
Isn't it supposed to be point of view based on historical facts and the
right of the Jewish people to live on the land of their ancestors?

The term "Palestinian" is itself a masterful twisting of history. To
portray themselves as indigenous, Arab settlers adopted the name of an
ancient Mediterranean tribe, the Philistines ("Invaders" in Hebrew),
that disappeared out over almost 3000 years ago. The connection between
this tribe and modern day Arabs is nil. Romans, in order to conceal
their shame and anger with rebellious regions, changed the references to
Judea and Samaria by naming them Palestine.

1. Nationhood and Jerusalem - Israel became a nation in the 14th century BCE. Twothousand years before the rise of Islam.

2. Since 1272 BCE the Jews have had dominionover the land for up to 1,000 years with a continuous Jewish presence in the landforthe past 3,300 years.

3. The only Arab dominion since the Arab invasion and
conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no morethan 22 years.

4. King David founded the city of Jerusalem
. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

5. For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem
has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalemhas never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when theJordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capitaland Arab leaders did not come to visit.

6.Jerusalem
is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish HolyScriptures. Jerusalem
is not mentioned once in the Koran.

8.
In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews
constituted two-thirds of the population of that holy city. (The source:
A journalist on assignment in the
Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.)

9.In 1867, Mark Twain took a tour of Palestine. This is how he
described that land: A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is
given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a
human.

10. In 1882, official Ottoman Turk census figures showed that, in the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141 000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab.

11. A travel guide to Palestine and Syriawas published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker; The book estimated the total population of Jerusalem at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.

12. As the Jews came and drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, Arabs followed. They came for jobs, for prosperity, for freedom. And, they came in large numbers.

13. In 1922, with what was widely acknowledged as the illegal
attempt to separate Trans-Jordan - East side of the Jordan river, the Jews were forbidden to settle on almost 77% of the Palestine, while Arab settlement went unrestricted and encouraged by British mandatory authority.

14. Prior to the Second World War Mojli Amin, a member of the Arab Defense Committee for Palestine, proposed the idea "that
all the Arabs of Palestine will leave and be divided up amongst the
neighboring Arab countries. In exchange for this, all the Jews living in
Arab countries will leave and come to Palestine."

15. Did you know that Saudi Arabia
was not created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraqdid not exist as a nation until 1932, Syria until 1941; the borders of
Jordan were established in 1946, violation Articles of the Palestinian Mandate, and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel
is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent
arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under
the control of the Turks.
Over 80% of the original British Mandate land was given to Arabs without population transfer of Arabs from the land designated for Jews.

16.
In 1947, the Jewish state huddled on 18% of the original British
Mandate land. The Jews accepted it gratefully. The Arabs rejected it
with a vengeance and seven Arab states immediately declared war against Israel.

17. In 1948, the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israelby Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Most of them left in fear of being killed by their own Arab brothers as traitors.

18.Some 850,000Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab countries, due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

19. The number of Arab refugees who left Israelin 1948 is claimed to be
around 630,000 (where did they get this number?). Based on population
census, estimated number of Arabs who left Israel
was around 460,000. They were ordered to leave by Arab leaders at the time.

20.
From 1948 till 1967 Arabs made no attempt to create a Palestinian
state. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated, 58 synagogues in Jerusalem were destroyedand the Jews and
Christians were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule,
all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible
to people of all faiths.

21. Arabs began identifying themselves as part of aPalestinian people in 1964 only, on the initiative of Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat. The idea became popular Arab propaganda tool after Israelre-captured Judea
, Samaria and Gazain the defensive 6-Day War of 1967.

22.
Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, Arab-Palestinians
are the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or
integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were
completely absorbed into Israel.

23. Arab refugees INTENTIONALLY were not absorbed or integrated by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9 percent of the Middle East landmass. They are kept as virtual prisoners by the Arab power brokers with misplaced hatred for Jews and Western democracy.

24. There is only one Jewish state. There are 60 Muslim countries, including 22 Arab nations.

25. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.

26. Pan-Arabism or the doctrine of Muslim Caliphate declares that all land that used to belong to Muslims
must be returned to them. Thus, Spain
, for example, must eventually be re-conquered.

December 25, 2014

“But
if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the
people be not warned; if the sword cometh and take from them a soul…his
blood will I require from the watchman”. (Ezekiel 33)

I sit on the mountain with a trumpet in my hand. We all sit on a mountain, each of us a watchman with a trumpet in hand. Our mission is to sit and see the enemy. Our mission is to see the danger, to search our own souls and to blow the trumpet and warn the rest – the rest of the Jewish people.

I
sit on a mountain as the sands slip through, the clock ticks away and
the Almighty watches from above to see whether the sleeping Jew will
awake on top of the mountain to see the enemy and blow the trumpet and
save himself and all the rest and reclaim his greatness and his destiny
before there are no more years left.

We are all watchmen, we Jews. We are commanded to know the danger, to see it approach, to blow the trumpet and save, both ourselves and our fellow Jews.

The ninth plague-darkness – has struck Egypt with a vengeance and
Pharaoh breaks. Step by step he has retreated and after the eighth
plague – locusts – he was prepared to allow the Jews to leave except for
their children. Now he surrenders almost entirely as he agrees that all
the Jews can leave. He only asks one thing, one compromise, one small
victory for himself, that the Jewish cattle remain behind.

Consider; the Jews have been slaves for 210 years. They have lived
in misery and persecution. They suffered decrees such as the one casting
their male children into the sea. They cried out unto the L-rd for
freedom and salvation. Now, apparently the great moment has arrived!
Pharaoh agrees that they shall go free! What does it matter that he asks
for their cattle? Give it to him! The main thing is peace and salvation
and we are willing to give up cattle for peace!

But Moses knows that this is not the purpose of the freedom of the
Jewish people and of the story of the slavery and exodus. He is not
prepared to compromise one inch because he knows what the purpose
of G-d is. When Moses first entered the presence of Pharaoh and said:
“The L-rd, G-d of the Hebrews, has said: Let my people go!” Pharaoh
contemptuously answered: “Who is the L-rd? I know not the L-rd and will
not let Israel go!” Here is where the battle was joined. Here is the
purpose and aim of creation – to have the world recognize the dominion
and kingship of the L-rd being challenged. Pharaoh must be made to
recognize and totally acknowledge the sovereignty of the L-rd over him
and his people. He cannot make compromises; he cannot strike bargains.
He must submit totally!

“And I shall be glorified through (the defeat of) Pharaoh and his
army and Egypt shall know that I am the L-rd.” Only the total defeat of
the wicked can raise and honor the name of the L-rd, says the Biblical
commentator Rashi. This is why there will be no compromise with Pharaoh.
He must totally submit, he must totally surrender.

And even when he apparently does this, after the plague of the first
born, when he runs to Moses and says: “Get out, take your flocks with
you, just leave and ask the L-rd to bless me!” Moses refuses and in the
words of the Mechilta; “And he called unto Moses and Aaron in the middle
of the night and said: get up and leave! Said Moses unto him: No, we
have been ordered not to leave our houses until morning. What are we,
thieves that we should slink out in the night? No, we will leave only in
the morning with an upraised arm before the eyes of all the Egyptians!”

Not one inch of retreat here. The lesson of the L-rd being the Omnipotent, King of the universe must be seen and acknowledged.

The
lesson is an eternal one and must be learned in our time, too. The
question of peace in the Middle East is a question of the Arabs and the
world acknowledging the total sovereignty of the All Mighty. There can
be no compromise on this. It is only a peace that comes with Arabs
submitting to the yoke of the heavenly kingdom that will be a permanent
one and the Jew who gives up part of his land as a compromise, violates
the entire purpose of the rise of the Jewish State and the demand of the
All Mighty that the nations acknowledge Him as King. There can be no retreat from land because that is in essence a retreat also from the Kingship of the L-rd. Rabbi Meir Kahane

December 24, 2014

Breathes there a Jew with mind so dead who never has
proclaimed allegiance to rationality, pragmatism and the joys of being
practical?To be a person who speaks of
“faith” and “ belief” is clearly to have one foot in the camp of the Ayatollah
and no normal Jew would ever dare be brushed with the tar of “fanatic!”No, the Jewish people is a “normal” people, a
rational one, and thank G-d that the normal people is also the most abysmally
ignorant of its own Judaism and teachings – otherwise it would surely burn all
the Bibles and Talmuds that babble about “cursed is he who trusteth in man.”

And so it follows that trusting in G-d is a quaint thing, to
be jollied over at the Jewish Museum and in lecture series, but only an
extremist would take it to the light of modern day.This is a practical world, one in which tough
and pragmatic men understand the real realities and make their plans
accordingly.Prayers are wonderful for
the holidays and with which to open conventions but let them attempt to escape
to the streets to demand equal time and to be taken seriously, and we shoot
them down as dangerous fanaticism.

That is why the sophisticates from Peres to the AJC, from Moment
to Olam HaZeh reject the past as key to the future and indeed, hallow
only the moment, the “zeh”.We believe
only in the things we can see and touch and feel and understand.Only the logical and rational play any part
in our equations; guns, allies, realpolitik, those are the things and
stuff of which the real is made of.

And that is why we dare not annex the “occupied
territories” (Judea-Samaria-Gaza); and that is why we dare not even talk of
removing the Arabs from the Temple Mount; and that is why only madmen should
think of expelling or “transferring” the Arabs; and that is why we dare not
ever anger the Americans without whom we would be in the sea.

Very well, I am convinced.Secular logic is, after all, so compelling.I have decided to convert.I have decided to accept the religion of
pragmatism.You now behold, before you,
a superb example of rationality and practicality.But to the bitter end. And here,
fellow pragmatists and healthy rationalists is the bitter end.

Of course this religious dependence on G-d is absurd.Of course the reality is weapon and the
United States and allies and good will.Because it is only this that will stand us in good stead when the Arabs
produce or receive their first nuclear weapon or decide to use the
chemical-biological weapons that are today’s “poor man’s” nuclear arsenal.

Pakistan is on the verge of producing (and may, indeed, have
already produced) its own nuclear weapon.It does not take very much to produce a “primitive”, outdated, atomic
bomb which is limited in scope, say like the one dropped on Hiroshima… And if
Moslem Pakistan develops such a weapon does one believe that its devoted
faithful will not share it with their oppressed Arab Moslems and
Palestinians?By all means let us be
hard headed and come up with a rational answer to that.Without the nonsense of faith.

And when the head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Engineers,
General Yoseph Ayal tells us (August 17) that certain Arab states are
developing the capacity for chemical and biological warfare, there is no doubt
that our practical senses will handle the matter with equanimity and without
interference from G-d and his faithful.My only problem is that in all my pious rationality I really do not know
how to deal with the above.Practicality
somehow fails to give me answers as to how to deal with Arab nuclear,
biological and chemical weapons in the hands of fanatical Moslems.

And bringing back tongue from cheek, the bitter reality is
that the realists have nothing but bitter reality and not the slightest answer
to the pragmatic and practical problems that defy rational solutions.The reality is that Israel faces such awesome
practical threats just over the horizon that a normal, practical, rational Jew,
would be insane to stay if he could, somehow, leave the country.It is only the “impractical”, the
“irrational”, and the “dreamers” who have any rational reason to remain.They believe in G-d.They have faith in an Almighty and a Torah
that decreed there never can be a third exile.They know that perfect faith and trust in G-d, while observing His
commandments, will assure victory over our enemies.That is why they stay. That is why they are
undeterred by the certainty of Arab nuclear and chemical and biological
weapons.Because they pray.Because they do not miss a mincha –
and evening service – or any other kind.Because they do know that “these may come with nuclear bombs and these
with chemical warfare, but we shall proclaim the name of the L-rd.”

A rational Jew?That
is a rational Jew.Any other kind, the
one who decides to trust in Ronald Reagan (Today Obama) is mad, fanatic, extreme, a real
Khoumeniite.

For the Jews of true belief
there is no more fundamental axiom than that of a world of hashgacha, ordained,
directed, immutable history. For the Jew
of real faith and religion, there is a G-d who created all, who decreed that
which was, who commands all that is, who proclaims all that will be. A world that is ordered rather than one of
anarchy, a world that is not free to spin on its own chosen axis but which is
bound by the natural laws and decrees of the creator. And a world whose inhabitant are as clay in
the hands of the great Potter, whose lives are subject to His will and for whom
directed reward and punishment are assured for their actions and deeds. A human does not injure his finger without
being so decreed from Heaven and this we solemnly accept. How much more so does the humiliating
American retreat from Lebanon and the previous shattering explosion in Beirut
cry out for recognition as Divine decree – but that is a thing that is too
difficult for us to proclaim.

But it is true and there is a book that is open in which
all of man’s deeds are recorded and the Hand writes and records and retribution
is stored away for its proper moment.

The terrible tragedy of American humiliation that was
preceded by the bombing and slaughtering of the United States forces in Lebanon
is a shock and sadness for the lives lost.
But there is nothing in this world that occurs without reason and only
those who seek to throw off the yoke of heaven from about their personal necks
demand belief in a world that itself is free from ordained direction. The one who seeks freedom from discipline and
restraint insists upon creating a world that is similarly anarchical, unbound,
undirected, unfettered by punishment for our deeds. The one who seeks to be free to do all that
pleases him, creates a G-d who has a place in this world that he – Man –
decides for Him, a Deity akin to a smiling Santa Claus always bearing gifts and
never bestowing retribution. But, that
is not the world of the Jew, that is not the reality, and those who insist upon
sin will receive retribution and those who persist in license will learn that
there is a G-d and a book and a hand that writes and there is reward and
punishment. And that, as sad as it my
seem and as shocking as it may appear to the fearful and the unwilling, is the
reality of the terrible event in Beirut.

There is a G-d in the world and He is the L-rd, G-d of
Israel. And those nations that go
against His people will, at some point, feel the punishment implicit in a world
of His hashgacha, ordained direction.

How did the marines get to Lebanon in the first
place? What brought them to the country,
which was to take the lives of so many of them?
Why surely the fact that the President who still sees nothing and still
understands the same, rose up in front of Israel and ordered it to stop its
march to destroy its enemies. When the
Jewish forces of vengeance stood poised in Beirut to physically destroy the
Arab desecrators of G-d and His people, the murderers and defilers of the Name,
it was the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of those
marines and sailors who died last year, who raised his hand and demanded that
the Jews halt; that compelled her to allow the PLO roaches to save their lives
and leave their graveyard. Let the truth
be engraven on our hearts so that we may understand the explosion in
Beirut: The United States forces who
died in Beirut we sent there in the first place, not to keep “peace”, but to
prevent Israel from destroying the PLO, the enemies of the G-d of Israel.

The marines were sent to Lebanon to insure that the Israelis
would not be allowed to do that which they should have done. The open hostility and contempt for the
Israelis was permanently engraved on the world by the marines who, time after
time, harassed the Israelis and confronted them in a manner they never managed
in the case of the Arabs. The original
purpose of the United States troops was not to keep the “peace” but to keep the
Israelis from destroying the Palestinians.
And for that the book was open and the hand wrote and retribution was
decreed by a G-d who told His chosen Abraham: “Those who bless you shall be
blessed and those who curse you shall be cursed.” And let not the gentile who defiled the G-d
of Israel now weep for the consequences of his own actions – the defiance of
the G-d of history. What was sown has
been reaped, and the tragedy is not an unguided thing.

The gentile who furiously condemned Israel for the massacres
in Beirut and who rushed in troops to save the remaining Arabs even while
driving the Israelis out has been repayed by those whom he saved. That is the lesson of the tragedy in Beirut
and if the gentile has not learned it, at least let the Jew. So that he, the Jew, will always remember
the book that is open and the hand that writes and all his deeds are recorded. And retribution is set-aside for the day of
payment.

NEW YORK, December 18, 2014 --- The
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly declaring that
President Barack Obama, who has this week freed three convicted spies
who spied for an enemy regime, Cuba, must free Jonathan Pollard, who
spied for an American ally, Israel.

The ZOA further notes that
one of the convicted spies freed by President Obama was responsible for
the murder of an American citizen and that all three have served only 13
years for their crimes on behalf of an enemy state, whereas Jonathan
Pollard has been imprisoned for 29 years for spying for an American
ally.

ZOA National President
Morton A. Klein said, "It is remarkable that President Obama, who has
been repeatedly urged by U.S. officials who held responsibility at the
time for national security and intelligence matters to free Jonathan
Pollard, has refused to do so.

"Conversely, he has shown
himself, this week, to be willing to free three convicted men who spied
for a long-term enemy state, Cuba, including one man who was responsible
for death of an American national. Where is the logic and justice in
that?

"Jonathan Pollard passed on
classified information to Israel, a U.S. ally, not a U.S. enemy. There
was, thus, no treason involved. Pollard pled guilty to the charges and
apologized for his crimes. His crimes did not lead to the death of
Americans, as was once claimed, but rather the espionage activities of
Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, whose actions came to light only after
the Pollard sentencing, were shown to be responsible for those results.

"Despite, having pled guilty
as part of a plea bargain, Pollard was shown no leniency and was given
the maximum sentence, comparable to that of Aldrich Ames, the chief of
CIA counterintelligence in Eastern Europe, who passed critical defense
secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and was found
responsible for the deaths of at least 11 U.S. agents!

"A host of senior past high
U.S. government officials with responsibility for relevant national
security, international and legal affairs, such as former Secretaries of
State Henry Kissinger and George P. Schultz, former CIA Director R.
James Woolsey, former National Security Advisor Robert C. "Bud"
McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary for Defense Lawrence J. Korb,
former Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, former Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman David Durenberger, former
Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann; former White House counsel
Bernard Nussbaum, former Senate Judiciary Committee Member, Dennis
DeConcini, and former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel Samuel Lewis and Thomas
Pickering, have all publicly and in writing stated that Jonathan
Pollard's sentence has been disproportionate and urged President Obama
to pardon him.

"Jonathan Pollard has
already served nearly three decades behind bars, which is by far the
harshest sentence ever meted out for the offense he committed -- the
average term for which is a fine or two to four years' imprisonment.

"If President Obama can free
three spies for a hostile state like Cuba, including a murderer, he can
certainly pardon Jonathan Pollard. He should do so without further
delay."

Baruch Widen, interfaith "dialoguer," artist, and a perennial student of American history, joins Yishai
in the studio to discuss the "Israel Fatigue" phenomenon and how Israel
is now perceived in America. Hint: Some people are buying the
anti-Israel media bias.

Then on Spiritual Cafe: did you know that the first man, Adam,
celebrated Hanukkah? Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Yishai in-studio to discuss
humanity's primordial urge to overcome the long dark nights of winter
and which the lights of Hanukkah satisfy. Also, how did the Biblical
Joseph acquire the faith and fortitude to follow his dreams to the end,
and can we learn from him?

About the Author:Moshe Herman has
been actively involved in Israel activism since founding the first
pro-Israel student organization at Boise State University in 2007. He
has been a member of several panels and discussion groups with topics
ranging from interfaith dialogue in the Middle East to Israel’s
importance as a Jewish state. Herman joined The Yishai Fleisher Show at
the beginning of 2012 and currently resides in Jerusalem after making
Aliyah in July 2013.

The Wisdom Of The Dreidel: Comfort in an Impossible World

Can a simple top, a delightful toy for children, really speak to me
in the aftermath of tragedy? In the aftermath of a Har Nof?

Although some might suggest otherwise, questioning how a mere toy
could possibly carry the weight of such an event, I believe the dreidel
can in fact afford insight into how to wrestle with such difficult and
seemingly unfathomable events. In doing so, it offers a hint to why I am
so enamored with my ever-growing dreidel collection; a collection I
began almost thirteen years ago when I met my beloved wife.

I remember that moment so clearly. It was the second night of Chanukah.
Yes, it was a miracle for me to have met my dear Clary. A Chanukah
miracle. But even that remembrance begets a Chanukah question. In my
heart, the dreidel came to symbolize that wonderful meeting and yet,
wouldn’t a single grandiose dreidel have been enough to commemorate that
life-transforming moment?

Why did I feel moved – some might suggest compelled – to
continue to amass dreidel after dreidel, growing my collection to nearly
a thousand dreidels from the United States, Israel, Spain, Hungary,
India, Russia, Scotland, Brazil… indeed from all over the world. So many
wondrous tops! So many that anyone who comes into the room where I keep
my many volumes of books will find themselves transported by the sight
of them.

No single dreidel for me. Rather, hundreds of them – made from a broad array of materials, in all sizes and colors.

It is a rare visitor to our home who doesn’t view my collection and then
– smile fading from his or her face – ask, “Rabbi Safran, of all the
things in the world to collect, why dreidels?”

Lest you think my collection is simply whimsy, an opportunity to recall
the delightful evenings of childhood when the joy of Chanukah filled my
household, let me share with you my response.

“What,” I ask, “does the dreidel teach us? What is its message?”

So much of Chanukah is presented in a way to delight young children. The dreidel and gelt. The sufganiyot.
The games and songs commemorating the miracle of a small, dedicated
army of fighters overcoming fierce oppression and rededicating our
sanctuary.

And let us not forget the miracle of the oil!

But the story and challenge of Chanukah – and its ultimate miracle – is
far beyond a child’s simple story. Likewise, all the elements of that
story are more powerful and commanding than how they are often portrayed
in the telling. Indeed, the “toy” dreidel represents not simplicity but
the complexity and hidden nature of history and miracles.

Just as the dreidel spins and lands with only one side up, history and
experience also show us only some of reality. The four sides of the
dreidel teach that we are never truly seeing the whole story and that
there is always another side that remains hidden to us.

When we begin to grasp the deep truth of the dreidel, we come to
understand that with so much beyond our understanding, we have to have
faith in hidden miracles and in God. We cannot comprehend the meaning of
Har Nof just as we cannot understand the countless other events that
mark our long history.

So we return to the dreidel. Four panels. A nun, a pei or shin, a gimmel, and a hei.
Four letters, representing the message of Chanukah – “A great miracle
happened here/there.” As it spins and falls, showing one letter, it
necessarily hides another. What is plain to us is only what we see. We
too often fail to find comfort or meaning in what is hidden to us.

When the dreidel falls on the hei we go on playing the game, never considering that on the other side of the dreidle is the nun – neis for “miracle.” We see the “there was” but we are blind to the miracle. A gimmel – “great” – hides the pei/shin, the “here” or “there.”

We spin on and on and on, missing so many of God’s messages to us. Why?
Because we see only that which is plain to us, failing to look deeper in
order to find that which is less obvious or hidden. However, our
blindness does not mean that what is on the other side of the dreidel is
not an equally important part of the reality we perceive.

Bayamim hahem – in days of yore. What is vital is not what was
but whether what was has everlasting value to us. Many of the holidays
listed in Megillat Ta’anit are not celebrated because they fail this simple test. They have meaning only in their own time, in the past.

Chanukah – with its silly little dreidel – continues to be celebrated
because its message and its power continue to speak to us today. Ba’zeman hazeh.

Bridging the near-insurmountable distance between hayamim hahem to ba’zeman hazeh is the mystical gift of our survival – physical, spiritual and religious. The bridge that carries us from the hei of the dreidle to the neis is the same gift that allowed the congregation of Har Nof to celebrate a bris the very day after the unspeakable events there.

A great miracle is happening here.

In Days of Deliverance, Rav Soloveitchik notes that Chanukah
has a universal appeal; it is “…a holiday of political victories, a
holiday of the smashing of political might. Matityahu and his sons had
the strength and the courage to confront the Syrian-Greek legions, to
liberate the city of Jerusalem and its Temple, and to re-establish an
independent Jewish kingdom. This history of dramatic bravery appeals to
all, Jew and non-Jew, especially when the revolutionaries compose a
small group, unorganized and poorly armed, yet unafraid of declaring war
on a mighty enemy.”

However, having said that, he asks the deeper question: “Is Chanukah
merely a holiday telling us a heroic story of battles won and political
victories gained, like the American Fourth of July, or the French
Fourteenth of July? A political event, even one of the greatest
importance, can be celebrated only as long as the people view it as a
turning point in history, the beginning of a new epoch in independence….
However, a political victory loses its meaning when the people later
lose their independence and the victory ends in a downfall.

“If Chanukah had been simply a holiday of political freedom, its whole
meaning would have evaporated with the destruction of the Temple and the
exile of the Jewish people. Chanukah’s fate would have been exactly
like that of all the other holidays of the Second Temple era which were
enumerated in Megillat Ta’anit…”

As is clearly pointed out in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 19b), “One was forbidden [to fast] on those days named in Megillat Ta’anit
when the Temple was in existence, because they were days of gladness at
that time. Once the Temple was no longer in existence, one was
permitted [to fast] because they are days of mourning to them.”

That being the case, asks the Rav, “Where is the logic in celebrating
Chanukah during thousands of years of exile, martyrdom, ghettos,
pogroms, and suffering? How small and worthless do the Maccabees’
victories seem when compared to the cruel political downfalls that we
have suffered?”

Matityahu and his sons did not start a revolt due to political pressure.
They, along with the rest of the people, accepted their political
suffering. It was due to the Greeks’ hatred for our spiritual essence,
our difference – our Torah. It was the same hatred Haman felt
when he complained, “Their laws are different from those of every
people.” It is the same hatred we felt during the Holocaust and, indeed,
during the most recent expression of that hatred, Har Nof.

It was easy to understand the statement by the director of the Zaka
rescue and recovery organization likening the scene he witnessed in Har
Nof to pictures from the Holocaust.

The comparison rings true, not just in the images but on a deeper level. How did we celebrate a bris the day after the tragedy of Har Nof? How did we rebuild the Jewish nation after the Holocaust?

How can we comprehend such a rebirth? Just as the toppled dreidel is
picked up to spin again, so too do we go on. The day after the tragedy
at Har Nof there was davening, there was learning, there was
celebration. Our DNA is defined by renewal. No one can stop us. We are
God’s nation. He is Eternal. So then are we.

When we are massacred in shul we return the next day to pray and to celebrate a baby boy’s bris. When the gates of Auschwitz slammed shut, the gates of Haifa opened.

Chanukah is not about Matityahu’s military victory. That did not last. What did last to this very day is
the purification and renewal of Jewish life. Difficult to grasp? Seems
senseless? Walk the length and breadth of Israel and see for yourself.

In another essay, Rav Soloveitchik expresses similar thoughts:

“One can see that which is revealed, but not that which is concealed.
The Kabbalists speak about the antithesis between the hidden world and
the revealed world. These terms express the idea that most things that
humans can sense are only the last phase in a long evolutionary process
that unfolded quietly, far from the perception of the human eye, which
can discern only things that are ripe and complete.”

The Rav points out that the Hasmoneans fought not against an imperial power but for the
purity of the Jewish soul, in their own time and forever. They fought
and won to show that the people can be reborn and renewed. That is the miracle.

When the dreidel shows a gimmel it is good to remember that on the other, unseen, side is the nun.There,
sometimes hidden, untold miracles abound. We are all dreidels. We keep
spinning. That’s why I continue to acquire more dreidels – the miracles
of our eternal existence never cease to create renewed amazement.

May we always seek the hidden and find the miraculous of the Eternal even when we are confronted by the pain of the temporal.

About the Author:Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran is an educator, author and lecturer. He can be reached at e1948s@aol.com.

About Me

I write this blog to voice an opinion of a : non-PC, non-politically affiliated, pro meritocracy, TNSTAAFL, believer in NO man, that is sick and tired of the Arab / Muslim taqiyya campaign of lies and fabrication, who is striving for observance and Aliyah.